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Record Nr.

UNINA9910166650003321

Autore

Malkowski Jennifer <1983->

Titolo

Dying in full detail : mortality and digital documentary / / Jennifer Malkowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2017

ISBN

9780822373414

0822373416

9780822363002

0822363003

9780822363156

0822363151

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Disciplina

070.18

Soggetti

Documentary films - Production and direction - Moral and ethical aspects

Documentary mass media

Death in motion pictures

Digital cinematography - Technique

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Capturing the "moment" : photography, film, and death's elusive duration -- The art of dying, on video : deathbed documentaries -- "A negative pleasure" : suicide's digital sublimity -- Streaming death : the politics of dying on YouTube.

Sommario/riassunto

In 'Dying in Full Detail' Jennifer Malkowski explores digital media's impact on one of documentary film's greatest taboos: the recording of death. Despite technological advances that allow for the easy creation and distribution of death footage, digital media often fail to live up to their promise to reveal the world in greater fidelity. Malkowski analyzes a wide range of death footage, from feature films about the terminally ill (Dying, Silverlake Life, Sick), to surreptitiously recorded suicides (The Bridge), to #BlackLivesMatter YouTube videos and their precursors. Contextualizing these recordings in the long history of attempts to capture the moment of death in American culture, Malkowski shows



how digital media are unable to deliver death "in full detail," as its metaphysical truth remains beyond representation.